Peter Riegert
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal Distric of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Proud, grateful, and longing to be American, the Jews of the Sitka District have created their own little world in the Alaskan panhandle, a vibrant, gritty, soulful, and complex frontier city that moves to...
2) Local hero
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A comedy about the interaction between Americans representing a Texas oil company and the inhabitants of a small village in Scotland.
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Madison Avenue executive Graham Marshall accidentally kills a street person and gets away with it. Suddenly the key to true success and happiness seems to be similarly getting rid of his nagging wife and arranging an "accident" for his boss.
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A coming of age story set in 1975 working-class Brooklyn, in which two teenage brothers living with their abusive father and their well-meaning but ineffective mother are caught up in a life of petty crime. Older brother Danny concocts a daring scheme to steal enough money for the two to escape, timed around the chaos of an upcoming Rolling Stones concert.
6) The mask
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A mild-mannered bank clerk becomes a superhero when he puts on a mystical mask.
Series
Hallmark hall of fame volume 52
Publisher
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Humorous, uplifting and touching story about abandoned dreams and rediscovered destinies.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Seymour 'Swede' Levov, a once-legendary high school athlete, is a successful businessman married to an ex-beauty queen, Dawn. When Swede and Dawn's daughter disappears after being accused of a violent crime, Swede's perfect life is broken forever and he is left to make sense out of the chaos.
10) Traffic
Series
Criterion collection volume 150
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
Traffic is a mural of a war being fought and lost. In a culture devoted to instant gratification and the quick fix, it poses unanswerable questions about greed, corruption, economic inequity, pleasure, self-medication, dependency, and addiction. The stories of a well-meaning politician with a wayward daughter, a rich suburban homemaker who sees her comfortable life hijacked by two earnest DEA agents, and a conscientious and honorable Mexican police...
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Local hero: Comedy about an American oil company representative and the sleepy seaside Scottish village he must buy.
Seven days in May: It happens with startling swiftness and violence. An armed cadre seizes state control. Fortunately, a coup d'etat can't happen here. Or can it? ...At odds are a popular general and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and an unpopular President with a pacifist agenda. At stake is the survival of the Republic. A vigilant...
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
1994, 2005.
Language
English
Description
The Mask: A mild-mannered bank clerk becomes a superhero when he puts on a mystical mask.
Son of the mask: The legendary Mask of Loki finds its way into the hands of cartoonist Tim Avery, whose new son is born with the Mask's spectacular powers.
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
South Pacific: "Rodgers & Hammerstein's beloved musical South Pacific. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by James Michener, and featuring some of the finest music ever written for stage... South Pacific spins a romantic tale of love and loss on a tropical island naval base during the Second World War." --Container.
Gypsy: "Bette Midler stars as the world's most relentless stage mother, who lovingly but unremittingly drives her two daughters,...
Publisher
CineDog Internationale
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Peter, a successful playwriter, has hit a stagnate point in his life. On the other side of his fence is the neighbor's howling, nasty, four-legged mutt. His wife wants a child and when new neighbor's move in with a child, Peter's wife becomes attached to her. Peter finds that he better learn this kids lingo in order to keep up with the times for his writing.